Receipt for Money Taxes
Receipt for taxes on productive beach-land, issued to a Kastor son of Phanomgeus
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 14411
Receipt for taxes on beach-land of the Germanician estate paid by Kastor TM 14411Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of EgyptApril 22, 152 A.D.
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A receipt dated 22 April AD 152, probably from Karanis in the Fayum, recording that the farmer Kastor son of Phanomgeus paid various small taxes on productive beach-land to the collectors of the Germanician estate. The charges include the apomoira, olive tax, aroura tax, survey tax and sheaf-guarding tax.
In English machine translation
Year fifteen of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Pharmouthi 27.
Kastor son of Phanomgeus, farmer of the 28th kleruchy, has paid to Nis...los also called Mikalos and partners, (collectors) of the Germanician estate, for year 15: for taxes on productive beach-land of year 15, for the apomoira [...] drachmas 3 obols; for the olive-yield tax 1/2 obol; additional charges 1/2 obol 2 chalkoi; for the aroura tax 2 obols; additional charges 2 chalkoi; exchange fee 2 chalkoi; for the fourth part of the survey tax 1 drachma; additional charges 1/2 obol; for the sheaf-guarding tax of the same estate for year 15, three drachmas in debased coin. Total, 3 drachmas in debased coin.
Aigialos ('beach-land') was land along the lake shore or flood margins taxed at special rates; 'debased' (rhypara) drachmas refers to the billon coinage in which the payments were reckoned. The collector's name is only partly legible.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Quittung für die Zahlung verschiedener Steuern). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.mich.mchl.14
ἔτους πεντεκαιδεκάτου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τίτου Αἰλίου Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνίνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς Φαρμοῦθι κζ. διέγραψεν Νισ…λῳ τῷ καὶ Μικάλῳ καὶ μετόχοις Γερμανικιανῆς οὐσίας ιε ἔτους Κάστωρ Φανομγέως γεωργὸς κη κληρουχίας τελεσμάτων αἰγιαλίτιδος ἐμφόρου ιε ἔτους ἀπομοίρης δραχμὰς […